CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL, Page. 
Inquiries and Notes.—Potatoes Changing in the Hill; 
Boot Cutters—Lever Root-Cutter, [Illustrated]—Ro¬ 
tary Root Cutter, [Illustrated;] The Way to Approach 
a Bee-Hive. 881 
European Agriculture.—Change of Seed Wheat, Early 
Ripening, Ac.; Cinders for Pigs; Cultivating Hops; 
Growing the Same Crop Too Often.331 
Group of Silesian Merino Sheep, [Illustrated].381 
Wintering Stock.381,382 
AVhathas Become of the Butter?.383 
Small and Large Potatoes for Seed.383 
Private Notes Worthy of Publicity—A Critic Criticised 
and Complimented—Value of Straw—Its Proper Of¬ 
fice—Manuring Pastures and Meadows.,„.382 
How to Make Beeswax—A New Process. 382 
Weeklies Preferable to Monthlies. 382 
Corn Stock Jack—Short Names Needed.382 
What is a Pure Blood ?.382 
Frost-Bitten Straw for Fodder..382 
Rural Spirit of the Press.—Contraction o( the Feet 
of Horses; Manures—An Experiment; Kidney Worms 
in Swine; Cider-making without Pressing; Wheat 
Planted in Hills.3S2 
Agricultural Miscellany.—The Weather; Humbug 
Advertisements; '1 he Tribune on Terra-Culture-: Phos¬ 
phates for Manure; A “Fair” Show; Xhe Man with a 
Grievance; Those Hubbard Squaihes; A We'gkty and 
Sizable Turnip.382 
HORTICULTURAL. 
American Fruits in Europe.. 383 
Hedge Growing—The Hawthorn.383 
Flowers for the Parlor.383 
Culture of the Hyacinth in Pots. 333 
Culture of the Hyacinth in Glasses, [Illlustrated] .383 
Culture of the Crocus in Pots, [Two Illustrations].383 
Inquiries and An&trers .—Cranberry Culture; Onon¬ 
daga Pears and Isabella Grapes from Onondaga; Wil¬ 
low, Strawberries, Ac.383 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Use of Saleratus and Cream Tartar: Tea-caVe; French 
Loaf Cake; Queen Cake; Roasting Ches'nuts; Rolled 
Jelly Cake; Composition Cake; Pork Cake; How to 
Cook Potatoes; Tip-top Cake. 383 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Lady Franklin, [Poetical;] Wedded to Gold; The Ab¬ 
sent; Grow Beautiful: About the E/lucation of young 
Ladies; Simplicity of Dress; Babyhood.384 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
On the River, [Poetical;] Cultivate the Beautiful—No. 
II; Poverty Not So Great a Curse; November, [Po¬ 
etical;] Old Age. 384 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
The Rainy Day, TPoetical:] Voices; True Contentment; 
Speak Low to Me, [PoeticaiJ. 384 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Acquirement of True Principles; The Old School House; 
The Education Mest Needed; Rudimental Accuracy 
in Education; The Teachings of Arithmetic; The 
Human Mind.385 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Weyer’s Cave—No. IV; Economies of Modern Society; 
Damascus; Want of Air; The River Jordan; Tem¬ 
perance .385 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Making Picture Frames; Artesian Wells: Sun-Dog; 
Freezing Boiled Water; Electricity Imponderable; 
Pressure on a Mill-Dam; Mineral Kod ; Water-Proof 
Cement; Genesee Model School for Boys. 385 
STORY TELLER. 
November, [Poetical;] Kate Richmond’s Bouquet; and 
What Became of It. 388 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Godey’s Lady's Book—L. A. Godey. 
The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs for 1860— 
Luther Tucker A Son. 
The People's Mill—R. L. Howard. 
Brown’s Bronchial Troches, or Cough Lozenges. 
Trees, Stocks and Seeds—E. C. Frost. 
20,000 Two Years Old apple Stocks—P. Bowen. 
Apple Seeds—A. Fahnestock A Sons. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 26, 1859. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at Washington. 
Tiib estimate of the War Department has been 
reduced $2,000,000 for next year, and half a million 
below the actual appropriation made by Congress. 
Tbe War Department has received a dispatch 
from Gen. Twiggs, dated San Antonia, 12th inst., 
saying that an express had just arrived from Rio 
Grande city, stating that Cortinashad laid Browns¬ 
ville in ashes, killing a hundred American citizens, 
and Cortinas, with 800 men, was marching toward 
the Nueces. Full credence was not given to the 
report. 
Mr. Ward, Minister to China, recently expressed 
a wish to return home after exchanging the ratifi¬ 
cation treaty, but the President objects, and wishes 
him to go to Shanghai and settle the American 
claimB for which the treaty provides. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune writes 
that Secretary Cobb has not commenced writing 
his Annual Report, and will not until the latest 
figures are received. The clerks are now digesting 
’ information already obtained from his notes and 
references. Besides apparent balance of $4,700,- 
000 in the Treasury, the Secretary has $5,000,000 
in notes received from customs during the heavy 
imports, which are capable of re-issue, and about 
$1,000,000 anticipated by miscellaneous securities. 
These two sums, with a temporary draft upon 
the working margin of the Department, will enable 
him to meet the Post-Office demand of about $8,- 
000,000 by about the 1st of January, and $1,000,000 
for Congressional mileage. If the revenue fulfills 
his anticipations afterwards, he can get on; if not, 
a new law will be neceessary. 
Upwards of twenty members of Congress are 
now here, and others have been here to make 
arrangements for accommodation during the Ses¬ 
sion. 
Nothing can yet be positively ascertained con¬ 
cerning the precise object of sending large bbdies 
of troops to the Rio Grande further than the pro¬ 
tection of that frontier from the attacks of the 
force of Cortinas, to utterly destroy which it is the 
purpose of the Administration. As it was hut 
recently supposed, in official quarters, that two 
companies from Fort Clark and one from Baton 
Rouge would be sufficient to check the movements 
of that brigand, the augmentation just ordered 
has naturally excited suspicions of other contem¬ 
plated measures. Various speculations are in¬ 
dulged in, but the most plausible theory, formed 
on certain revelations deemed to be reliable, is 
that Spain, France and England meditate prompt 
action in satisfying claims in which their subjects 
are interested, and which may involve the national 
existence of Mexico, or the substitution of a monar¬ 
chy under the protection of those powers. In 
view of these eircnmstances, the probabilities are 
that our Government may feel constrained to 
occupy the Northern part of Mexico to secure the 
ratification of the claims of our cilizenB against 
that country, as well as for the security ef Ameri¬ 
cans on tbe frontier. From all that can be ascer¬ 
tained, it is fair to presume that some of the 
vessels of the home squadron will soon proceed to 
Vera Cruz, and other ports of Mexico. Indeed 
this seems to be certain, so impending are the 
reported purposes of France, England and Spain 
now regarded in official quarters. 
Personal and Political. 
Tub official returns of the late election in this 
State have not all been received as yet, but suffi¬ 
cient intelligence has come to hand to show that 
Jones, Richmond and Skinner, Democrats, have 
been elected by majorities ranging from 400 to 
1,200. Forrest, Republican candidate for State 
Prison Inspector, hasbetween 500 and 600 majority 
over his Democratic competitor. 
Augustus Belmont, our former Minister at the 
Hague, is to remove to Europe, to take the place of 
head of the house of Rothschild. 
Ex-Gov. Gilmer died at LexingtoD, Ga, Wed¬ 
nesday afternoon,‘16th inst., after a month’s illness. 
A writer in Once a Week, gives the following 
account of the death of the great Pitt:—“Pitt 
died at his house on Putney Heath, near the spot 
where Canning and Castlereagh fought their duel, 
in a very neglected state, none of his family or 
friends being with him at the time. One, who was 
sincerely attached to him, hearing of his illness, 
rode from London to see him. Arriving at his 
house, he raDg the bell at the entrance-gate, but 
no one came. Dismounting, he made his way to 
the hall door, and repeatedly rang the bell, which 
no one answered. He then entered the house^ 
wandered from room to room, till at last he dis¬ 
covered Pitt on a bed — dead and entirely neglect¬ 
ed. It is supposed, that such was his poverty he 
had not been able to pay the wages of his servants, 
and that they had absconded, taking with them 
what they could.” 
The vote called out in New York was only 56,- 
353 in all, where One Hundred and Four Thousand 
stood on the Registers. 
Senator Douglas’ physician considers his con¬ 
dition considerably improved, and he is considered 
convalescent. 
Tub Brooklyn Star seriously and strongly urges 
Horace Greeley for President. 
Tub returns of the election, in Louisiana, lor 
Governor, thus far, foot up 9,686 for Moore, Dem, 
against 6,775 for Wells, Opp. The Representa¬ 
tives stand 42 Democrats to 22 Opposition and six 
Independent. 
The London papers are remarkably well inform¬ 
ed upon the personnel of American politics. The 
latest evidence of this is the announcement in one 
of them that “ among the candidates of the Demo¬ 
cratic party for the Presidency, the most promb 
nent is Stephen A. Douglas, a black man, who for 
many years has conducted an abolition and eman¬ 
cipation paper with signal success.” 
Tub Dubuque Herald gives the following foot¬ 
ings of the official vote on Supreme Judges at the 
late election in Iowa: 
Republican. Democrats. 
Rowe .56.040 I W^on .63.885 
Stockton .55.767 | Mason .67,625 
Baldwin .55,740 | Cole .53,418 
An election for State officers takes place in Kan¬ 
sas on the 4th of next month. Samuel Medary is 
the Democratic candidate for Governor, and Gov. 
C. Robinson the Republican candidate. 
The official vote of Maryland at the recent elec¬ 
tion foots up Democratic 38,468, Opposition 48,806. 
This, however, includes the vote of Baltimore, 
much of which is claimed to be fraudulent. 
Thu Milwaukee Sentinel now has returns from 
all but eleven counties in Wisconsin. The majori¬ 
ty for Randall, Rep., thus far is 3,000, and the 
counties to come will probably increase it. 
The Provisional Government of Nebraska has 
gone into operation by the organization of both 
branches of the Legislature. Mr. Steele, the Gov¬ 
ernor elect, delivered a message in which he urges 
the necessity of the present form of government 
until Congress shall take action in reference to the 
Territory. 
Mews Paragraphs. 
A firm in Minneapolis is engaged in building 
eight large ice boats, which they intend to load 
with ice at the foot of Lake PepiD, during the 
winter, and run in the spring to Memphis and 
other southern markets. The boats will hold in 
the aggregate about 28,000 tons. 
The Elmira Female College is in a flourishing 
condition. President Cowles infoims us that tbe 
aggregate attendance is greater at this time than 
ever before since the opening of the institution, 
the number of pupils now in regular attendance 
being about one hundred and sixty. 
California bids fair to excel Ohio in the produc¬ 
tion of native wine. Most of the wine made there 
is consumed in the State, and hence very little of 
it is seen in this quarter; but one of the San 
Francisco papers advertises a list of 26 brands. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has received 
through the mail an anonymous letter enclosing 
sixty dollars, with a statement that it belongs to 
the Indian Department. The conscience of some 
defaulted has been touched. 
The last overland news received in San Fran¬ 
cisco was telegraphed from anew station, Pochcoco 
Pass, about one hundred and ten miles from that 
city, the operator seated on a box, and holding the 
machine in his lap, while the files of the Eastern 
papers are spread on the grass around him. The 
telegraph line is slowly creeping eastward at the 
rate of about four miles per day. 
The Bordens, who solidify milk up in Litchfield 
county, Ct., have also succeeded in solidifying, 
sweet cider, so that five quarts are reduced to one, 
which becomes a jellyish substance, and can al¬ 
ways be made sweet and liquid cider again by 
adding water. The Winsted Herald editor, who 
ought to know, seems to like the article. 
A Vermont paper states that a short time since 
a man in Coventry, while engaged in digging a 
well, came upon a quantity of frogs, embedded in 
the clay, about twenty feet below the surface.— 
After exposing them t® the air a short time, they 
became active and hopped off. 
A hard winter is predicted in California. The 
crop of mast is enormous. The trees in many 
places are literally loaded down with acorns. The 
Indians predict, “heap snow, heap snow—much 
wet.” 
The foundation of a new Fort on Hog Island 
Ledge, Portland Harbor, has just been completed. 
The foundations could only be worked at low water, 
and the process was a long and tedious one. The 
cost of the Fort ia $480,000, and it is to be fitted to 
mount ninety-three guns. 
At the first census of the United States, which 
was completed in 1791, the population was 3,921,- 
326; revenue, $4,771,000; exports, $19,000,000; 
imports, $20,000,000. 
The government of Peru has entered into a con¬ 
tract with Dr. Edward Cullen for the introduction 
of 25,000 Irish emigrants. The principal stipula¬ 
tions are that the emigrants shall renounce alle¬ 
giance to their government, and must become 
Peruvian citizens. The government of Peru has 
to pay their sea passage, and every colonist is to 
have about nine English acres of land, at an eleva¬ 
tion of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. 
A little plant is found upon the prairies of 
Texas, called the “ compass flower,” which under 
all circumstances of climate, changes of weather, 
rain, frost or sunshine, invariably turns its leaves 
and flowers towards the north, thus affording an 
unerring guide to the traveler who, unaided by the 
needle, seeks to explore those vast plains alone. 
The last Rural contained the offer of a South¬ 
erner for Mr. Giddings, dead or alive. The re¬ 
ward has met the eye of Mr. G., and he replies that 
“when he has done with his caput, the enraged 
Southerner can have it for $5,000. 
The Jews of Cincinnati have agreed to close 
their places of business on the Christian Sunday, 
and to allow no business to be transacted on that 
day in their stores and offices. 
Furs Extraordinary. — A New York corres¬ 
pondent of a Charleston paper says, our leading 
fur manufacturers have been working up, during 
the past summer, skunk skins, exclusively intend¬ 
ed for the foreign market, where the skunk and his 
remarkable qualities are entirely unknown. Large 
quantities of them go to Europe, and they are 
highly prized there under various fictitious and 
fancy names. 
Safety of the North Star.— For some days a 
great deal of anxiety has been felt in reference to 
the safety of this California steamer, as she was 
Dearly two weeks overdue, and had not been heard 
from. On the 17th inst, the joyful intelligence 
was received that all was right with the steamer, 
and the 878 souls on board, by a letter to the 
Charleston Courier, stating that she got ashore 
about the 26th of Oct(^Jtoc|the French Keys and 
remained on the Rey%| sTJ or seven days, but 
finally got off without extra assistance by throw¬ 
ing over some coal and iwivh a loss of anchors, 
and proceeded on her voyage on the 2d inst. 
Rescue of Forty - three Persons from a Sink¬ 
ing Vessel. —The Hungarian which arrived at Port¬ 
land last week, put into St. Johns, N. F., on the 9th 
inst., for the purpose of landing forty-three per¬ 
sons who had been rescued from the British 
schooner John Martin, bound from Labrador to 
Carbonier. In addition to her own crew, the 
John Martin had on board the crew of another 
schooner which was wrecked on the coast of Lab¬ 
rador in September. Tbe rescue was not made 
without considerable difficulty and danger, the 
sea running so high that it wa3 next to impossible 
for the life-boat to approach the sinking vessel 
without being stove to pieces. But the task was 
finally accomplished without accident. The crew 
who manned the life-boat were presented by the 
passengers of the Hungarian with two sovereigns 
each, and a silver cup was also voted to each one 
of the brave fellows. 
Gloomy Prospects for Railroads.— -One hun¬ 
dred million dollars of railroad bonds mature 
within the next five years. It is estimated that 
not five per cent, of this amount will be returned 
from the earnings of the roads. From a table of 
one hundred and twenty roads, not one-third of 
them declared a last half-yearly dividend. 
Exports. — The statement is made that the 
exportation of specie, from the first of January to 
the first of November, reached the sum of $53,270,- 
614, while the exports of produce amounted to 
$48,223,748, or only fifteen million more specie 
than produce. 
Schooner Wrecked.— The schooner Charles S. 
Peaslee, Capt. Baker, from Jacksonville for Phila¬ 
delphia, was totally wrecked in a gale while at 
sea, when all hands perished except one seaman. 
At the commencement of the gale the vessel was 
thrown on her beam ends, the sea sweeping over 
her, filling the cabin and forecastle, drowning the 
captain’s wife, who was below, and dashing the 
man from the wheel. The captain perished in an 
effort to save his wife, and all the sailors excepting 
one were washed overboard in attempting to cut 
away the masts. The seaman who was saved was 
named George Satterly. He was taken off the 2d 
inst., lat 31° 18', Ion. 77° 55', by the bark Samuel 
Shepherd, Capt. Hathaway, which arrived atBos- 
ton. The C. S. P. was 164 tuns burden, and 
owned by Mr. Hoffman, of Philadelphia. 
From Mexico and Brownsville. — The India- 
nola Courier of the 28tb, says that au express from 
the Sheriff of Mercer county, has arrived, and 
reports Cortinas with 1,500 men and nine cannon 
in full possession of the Rio Grande, from Browns¬ 
ville to Rima. His forces are scouring the country. 
All communication west of tbe Neuces was cut off 
with Corpus Christie. Capt. Tobin, with 100 men 
from Corpus Christie, had been defeated, and it is 
feared that he is cut off. The reports, however, 
are conflicting, and probably exaggerated. The 
latest reliable accounts from Brownsville, are 
received by the New Orleans merchants, direct 
from Brownsville to the 4th, when affairs were 
unchanged. 
New Line of Submarine Cable.— Mr. Sam’l. 
C. Bishop, of New York, has just completed an 
important length in our Cape Cod telegraph 
facilities by laying a very substantial submarine 
telegraph cable of his own manufacture, from 
Edgartown to Nantucket, a distance of from eight 
to ten miles. This new line will supply a want 
®lje Neros Conhcnsrr. 
— The population of Mobile Is set down at 32,009. 
much felt by the people of Nantucket. The new 
tine connects with the Boston and Cape Cod line _, 
at Edwaidstown. Wf .n 
— Money is worth in San Francisco from 24 to 30 per 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. — It is asserted that England 
will join the Congress, and that the French and 
English Governments have agreed on a basis for 
the settlement of the Italian question. 
The Great Eastern left Holyhead on the 2d, and 
reached Southampton on the 4th. She experienced 
very rough weather and a heavy sea on the passing 
round. The Times’ account of this third trial says 
that when the ship was exposed to the roll of the 
Atlantic, she rolled and dipped with ease. The 
ship seemed to swing herself with a side-long gen¬ 
tle motion over every wave, dropping deeply and 
easily beyond them. The whole roll of the vessel 
is calculated at only eight degrees each way, or 
sixteen degrees in all, an every-day amount to 
smaller vessels, though something for one which 
was supposed to be almost immovable by wind or 
sea. The greatest speed attained was 15% knots, 
close on to 18 miles per hour. However, the run 
from Helyhead to Southampton is pronounced far 
more satisfactory than either of her previous trips. 
The engines were under the sole control of Mr. 
McLennan, Chief Engineer of the ship. 
France. —The organization of the French army 
for China is considered definitely settled, and the 
preparations at the seaports for embarkation have 
already commenced. 
Cholera had broken out among the French 
troops destined to invade Morocco, and carried off 
several distinguished officers, including Colonel 
Lafout, commanding the engineers. The ravages 
exceeded fifty per day, and the total deaths were 
1,500. 
Italy. —It was vaguely reported that Garibaldi, 
in his interview with the King of Sardinia, de¬ 
clared that Italy was betrayed, and that he would 
lead the revolution. The King protested against 
such proceeding. 
The Sardinian Plenipotentiaries have received 
orders from Turin to sign the treaty of peace. It 
is believed that the treaty will be signed to¬ 
morrow, and the convocation to be held at Paris 
will immediately follow. 
Tbe elections of members of the Municipality at 
Florence and other places have terminated without 
any result, almost all the electors having abstained 
from votiDg. The National Assembly ha3 been 
convoked for Nov. 7th. 
Austria. — The Vienna correspondent of the 
Times says it is tolerably certain that the moment 
in which the Austrian Government will have to 
make concessions to Hungary, is not far distant. 
Commercial — Rreadstuffs.— Market quiet, thought 
wheat and corn were sliglnly hitrher. R'charnson, 
Spence & Co. quote finur dull, wiih sales of new 8'a’e 
at 24s@24s 6d. The ranee of prices were 22s6d a27s 6d. 
Wheat steady, and inferior and heated descriptions 
2@8d better. Red 9s8d@9i-0d ; white 9s@10s per cental. 
Corn firm and advanced 6d®ls on the week. Yellow 
S0f6d@31s6d; white 87e per quarter. Provisions.— 
Market cull. B'gland, Atb>a & Co., James McHenry 
& Co., Richardson, Spence <fc Co., quote beef heavy, and 
holders offering their o'd stock a* a deeliaeof 2s6irff5s. 
Pork steady at 60s. Lard firm at 5Gs(S)60s for refining 
extra. 
From the Pacific Side. 
The Overland Mail arrived at St. Louis on the 
17th inst., with California dates of the 28th ult. 
The accounts from Carson Valley and Walker 
River Mines continue to excite great attention. A 
stampede of Californians in that direction has 
already commenced, and a promised emigration 
equal to that of Fraser River. These mines are on 
the east side of the Sierra Nevada, and are sup¬ 
posed to extend from Honey Lake on the south 
about 200 miles. The principal discovery is called 
Gold Hill. It is a mound 60 feet high, and 5,000 
feet long, and 200 feet wide, and lies 20 miles 
north of Carson Valley. It is traversed by veins 
of quartz, a part of which when decomposed, 
realized from $500 to $2,500 per tun. 
Gov. Walker had appointed Judge II. T. HaroD, 
formerly of Ky., as United States Senator, to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Brode¬ 
rick. The new Senator was to leave for Washing¬ 
ton on the steamer of Nov. 5th. 
Colonel Lander,- Superintendent of the Fort 
Kearney and Honey Lake Wagon Road Expedi¬ 
tion, had completed his work in season, and was 
about to repair to Washington, having in hand an 
unexpended balance of $17,000. His stock, pur¬ 
chased in Missouri last spring at $13 per head, 
had been sold for the benefit of the Government, 
at over $200 per head. 
Business was more active at San Francisco, but 
without improvement in prices. 
The dates from the Sandwich Islands are to Oct. 
3d. The prospects of business were poor, and the 
community was troubled by reports from the 
Atlantic States, relative to the cheapness of coal 
oil, which it was thought would diminish the 
demands for whale oil, and injure the whaling 
business of Honolulu. Some of the sugar planta¬ 
tions were paying moderately well, hut the coffee 
crop was an entire failure. 
The British ship Achilles, Capt. Hart, which 
arrived at Honolulu on the 27th of September, 
reported that the American clipper ship Mastiff, 
Capt. Johnson, from San Francisco to HoDg Kong, 
having on board one hundred and eighty passen¬ 
gers, of whom one hundred and seventy-five were 
Chinese, was burned at sea on the 15th of Septem¬ 
ber. The passengers, with the exception of one 
Chinaman, who was smothered, were safely taken 
off by the Achilles and conveyed to Honolulu. 
Among the passengers were Richard n. Dana, 
of Boston, C. C. Harris, George Clifford, and 
I. H. C. Richmond. The Chinese are said to 
have lost a large amount of treasure. The cargo, 
consisting of about 500 tuns, was lost. ThS fire 
originated between decks from the Chinamen 
allowing spaiks to get among their combustible 
articles, which soon had the whole ship in a blaz^ 
The escape of passengers was owmg io the intiS- 
pidity and coolness of Capt. Johnson and bis 
officers, and the fortunate appearance of tbe Achil 
les. The Mastiff was a Boston first class clipper, 
valued at $90,000, and was insured for $80,000 in 
Boston. 
— The mines at Frazer river, it is said, are doing 
well. 
— Two men were suffocated in a corn bin at Chicago 
last week. 
— Amicable relations are established between Turkey 
and Persia. 
— The Canadian Parliament la to meet at Quebee 
December 7 th. 
— The wreck of the steamer New Worid has been 
towed to New York. 
— One hay speculator in Canada has purchased 
22,000 tuDB of the article. 
— A tiee lately ent near Placerville, CaL, furnished 
10,240 feet sawed lumber. 
— During the week ending Nov. 7, the number of 
deaths in New York was 361. 
— Frederick Douglas sailed from Quebec, for Eng¬ 
land, on Thursday, 17th isst. 
— The aggregate value of the taxable property in the 
city of New York is $532,908,470. 
— The American treaty with China has been ratified 
by the Chinese Commissioners. 
— A census of Iowa just completed shows that the 
State has a population of 883,549. 
— A spring of ealt water has been struck at East Sag¬ 
inaw, Mich., at the depth of 600 feet 
— Vulcanized India rubber is found to be the best 
material for the manufacture of flutes. 
— Col. Fremont gave $500 towards the erection of 
the Broderick Monument in California. 
— It is said that a Mr. Wells has sold a patent for a 
new kind fish hook, in England, for $25,000. 
— There is an immense amount of prairie on fire in 
the Northern and Central parts of Illinois. 
— The Philadelphia sheriff’s advertisements fill 17 
columns of one of the largest papers in that city. 
— The taxable property in Texas this year is $125,- 
343,366, being an increase of thirty millions over last 
year. 
— Six murderers were arraigned on Monday week 
in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in the city of New 
York. 
— Thomas A. Green, of New Bedford, gathered from 
one tree, this season, 1,450 perfect pears, of excellent 
flavor. 
— There is talk in England of a World’s Industrial 
Exhibition for 1S60 or 1861, the Prince of Wales to be 
President. 
— Baron Liebeg says that the quantity of soap used 
by a nation furnishes a pretty correct indication of its 
civilization. 
— The first hogshead of tbe new crop of tobacco 
has been sold at Richmond for eight dollars per hun¬ 
dred weight 
— It is said that Dr. Hayes, who accompanied Kane 
in his Arctic explorations, intends going again tq^he 
North SeaB. Bft 
— There is a more near West^Troy thirty-four years 
and six months old. Rather an antiquated specimen 
of horse flesh. 
— Mr. Rarcy of late has been giving gratuitous exhi¬ 
bitions of horse taming to the carters, cab and omnibus 
men of Glasgow. 
— At the opening of the Court of Common Pleas in 
Cleveland last week, there were 55 applicants on the 
docket for divorce. 
— An editor down South apologizes for delay in the 
issue of his paper, as he had an extra “ male ” to attend 
to during the week. 
— M. Victor Menniet, a well known scientific writer, 
informs tbe world that the next deluge will not take 
place for 6,S00 years. 
— There are large plantations of pea-nuts in Califor¬ 
nia, and the aiticle will eventually be exported in con¬ 
siderable quantifies. 
— A correspondent of the West Randolph Statesman • 
soys that gold has been found in the bed of White river, 
in Bethel, Vermont. 
— It is now reported that Senor Oviedo, whose mar¬ 
riage has made such a talk, is an oil merchant, and not 
worth over $100,000. 
— The exodus of slaves from the borders of Missouri 
continues unabated. White labor is coming in and that 
of negroes going out. 
— A vein, supposed to be inexhaustible, of the real 
old-fashioned Pittsburgh coal, has been discovered in 
Van Boren Co., Iowa. 
— The Chicago Prairie Fanner speaks of the increase 
in the culture of Sorghum at the West. It has thus far 
met with much success. 
— Chicago is cursed with obscene band bills to such 
an extent that an abatement of the nuisance is urged 
in some of the papers. 
— Eli Thayer keeps at work at Ceredo his Virginia 
free colony. Several New England families have lately 
purchased homes there. 
— An apple, grown this season by Thoe. R. Patten, 
of Vallejo township, Ca!,, weighed 32 ounces and was 
16 inches in circumference. 
— The New Orleans papers estimate the losses by fire 
in that city for this year to have been one million seven 
hundred thousand dollars. 
— The American Ambassador, in his Chinese box— 
S olus“ I go to Pekin to see the Chinese; the Chinese 
come to peek in to see me!” 
— At the late railroad accident at Albany the locomo¬ 
tive ran through a brick house and carried away the 
gable end of a frame buildiDg. 
— A London writer shows that the report that John 
Bunyan did not write the Pilgrim’s Progress, is wholly 
without foundation, and untrue. 
— A firm in Bangor purchased five tuns of spruce 
gum, and estimate their sales of the prepared article 
will this year reach 20,000 boxes. 
— A man in Kalamazoo is training an elk to trot. The 
elk has already trotted againsi, a horse for a purse of 
$700, winning by a long distance. 
— The silver mines of Arizona are again advertised 
as very promiting. Lt Mowry has brought away with 
him 46 pounds in various consitions. 
— A letter from Baltimore states that the dead body 
of one of Old Brown’s sons was carried off by the Vir¬ 
ginia medical students for dissection. 
— One of Van Amburgli’s elephants escaped Friday 
week from his keepers at Williamsburg, and went into 
the street, smashing things generally. 
— The number of hoop skirts made in Danby since 
April 1st is said to be 950,000, consuming at least 9,100,- 
000 yards of tape and 445 tuns of steel. 
— A London letter-writer says Kossuth has yet the 
60,000 old muskets he purchased in this country. The 
great Magyar ought to set up a gun shop. 
